hallucinatory
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- adjective
- /həˈluːsɪnətɔri/
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alucinado
- Zelazny's novel, like many of Philip K. Dick's most hallucinatory narratives, anticipated many of cyberpunk's thematic concerns.
- a hallucinatory experience
- hallucinatory perception
So we're having a a vast hallucinatory experience.
- So we're having a a vast hallucinatory experience.
- I'm meditated, I'm spiritual, I faced my hallucinatory demons.
Examples
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As she struggles to slow her breathing and her racing heart, she hears a hallucinatory murmur.
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It's like there's some kind of hallucinatory flu going around.
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In some cases, it can produce a hallucinatory state.
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You might catch yourself sliding in and out... of a hallucinatory state after this is all over.
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Morning and afternoon had passed in an uncomfortable, almost hallucinatory fashion.
Fiction book (2000) -
Eager for new experiments, he subsequently let himself be injected with mescaline, a hallucinatory drug.
Academic text (2009) -
Dr. Long: You name it, DMT, Ketamine, LSD, those are generally illicit substances that produce hallucinatory effects.
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The film's vivid colors and disorienting visuals created a hallucinatory experience for the audience.
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After taking the medication, he reported feeling a hallucinatory sensation of floating outside his body.
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The artist aimed to capture the hallucinatory essence of dreams in her surreal paintings.
Synonyms
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Causing people to see or feel things that are not real
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Looks and feels strange and dreamlike, often with bright changing colors
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Something that looks strange and like a vivid dream
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Looks like a strange dream with changing images
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Having the strange, unreal feeling of a dream
Showing very strange dreamlike scenes with bright melting colors
Having a quality like a dream or a ghost that seems unreal
Being unreal and like a dream
Antonyms
How Hallucinatory
Surface Forms
Morphology
hallucinatory = hallucination (transparent) = hallucin + atory
The adjective is formed by a standard suffixation from the noun 'hallucination' (relating to hallucinations), so the meaning is directly derived and clear to learners.
Etymology
Hallucinatory comes from hallucination and the verb hallucinate, which come from the Latin hallucinari meaning 'to wander in the mind'. So something hallucinatory looks or feels like a vision your mind makes up rather than a real thing.